{"id":178311,"date":"2025-09-10T18:48:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-pdp-presidency-candidates-mentioned-by-moro"},"modified":"2025-09-10T20:03:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:03:40","slug":"2027-pdp-presidency-candidates-mentioned-by-moro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-pdp-presidency-candidates-mentioned-by-moro","title":{"rendered":"2027 PDP Presidency Candidates Mentioned by Moro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Senate Minority Leader, Abba Moro, has disclosed three Southerners the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is considering as its presidential candidate in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Moro disclosed that former President Goodluck Jonathan, ex-Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State have been mentioned for consideration as PDP\u2019s possible presidential candidate in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on AIT\u2019s programme, Focus Nigeria, Moro disclosed that there are other qualified Southerners for consideration.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cSome names have been thrown up now that the position has been zoned to the South and all the names have been members of the PDP. Peter Obi because of the perceived unfair treatment of not zoning the position of the president to the South and possibly to the Southeast left PDP. And now the PDP has zoned the position to the South.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so Peter Obi you are from the South, left PDP because of the perceived injustice and unfair treatment, now that the thing has been zoned to the South you are welcome to join the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe former president, Goodluck Jonathan is a bona fide and an imminent member of PDP, a statesman per say has been mentioned, Seyi Makinde \u2013 the governor of Oyo State has also been mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can assure you that going forward, many more names are going to be mentioned because I insist that PDP as a grassrooted political party has many qualified, imminent and qualified Nigerians from the South that can give a shot at the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo let\u2019s watch and see, persuasions are on, contacts are been made, at the end of the day, we will find out who and who is in the running and we will present a candidate that will give the ruling party a run for its money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very sure that those people who moved to the ADC especially from the South felt short changed by the 2022 zoning of the party \u2013 throwing the position open which created some problems for the party, problems that the PDP is trying to find a solution to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Senate Minority Leader, Abba Moro, has disclosed three Southerners the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is considering as its presidential candidate in 2027. Moro disclosed that former President Goodluck Jonathan, ex-Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State have been mentioned for consideration as PDP\u2019s possible presidential candidate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":178310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[9305,1635,1165,254,65,222],"class_list":["post-178311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abba-moro","tag-jonathan","tag-makinde","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-peter-obi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2027 PDP Presidency Candidates Mentioned by Moro - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Senate Minority Leader, Abba Moro, has disclosed three Southerners the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is considering as ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-pdp-presidency-candidates-mentioned-by-moro\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2027 PDP Presidency Candidates Mentioned by Moro\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Senate Minority Leader, Abba Moro, has disclosed three Southerners the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is considering as ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-pdp-presidency-candidates-mentioned-by-moro\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-10T17:48:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-10T19:03:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757518577.905357.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"571\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-pdp-presidency-candidates-mentioned-by-moro#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-pdp-presidency-candidates-mentioned-by-moro\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2027 PDP Presidency Candidates Mentioned by Moro\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-10T17:48:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-10T19:03:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-pdp-presidency-candidates-mentioned-by-moro\"},\"wordCount\":362,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-pdp-presidency-candidates-mentioned-by-moro#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757518577.905357.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abba Moro\",\"jonathan\",\"Makinde\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"Peter Obi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-pdp-presidency-candidates-mentioned-by-moro#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-pdp-presidency-candidates-mentioned-by-moro\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-pdp-presidency-candidates-mentioned-by-moro\",\"name\":\"2027 PDP Presidency Candidates Mentioned by Moro - 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